Bereich "Identifikation"
Signatur
Titel
Datum/Laufzeit
- 1835-1848 and 1850 (Anlage)
Erschließungsstufe
Umfang und Medium
62 pp.
Bereich "Kontext"
Name des Bestandsbildners
Verwaltungsgeschichte
The Cratloe and Meelick Dispensary was formed on 6 January 1835 to provide healthcare for the underprivileged in East Clare within the Limerick poor-law union. The Dispensary’s work was supported partly through private subscriptions and partly through public funding. Surgeon Thomas Kane of Cecil Street, Limerick acted as the medical attendant. Initially, treatment was provided free of charge to patients in receipt of vouchers distributed by subscribers. However, the voucher system was vulnerable to abuse and from 1840 onwards a small fee was charged from all except the most destitute. The Dispensary remained active throughout the famine years, but by 1850 struggled to find funding. Its subsequent fate is unknown.
Bestandsgeschichte
Abgebende Stelle
Bereich "Inhalt und innere Ordnung"
Eingrenzung und Inhalt
Bound softback volume containing on the first pages minutes of the Dispensary committee meetings between 1835 and 1846 and statistical reports from 1843 and 1850. The latter report reveals that the Dispensary struggled to continue its activities at this time because of the lack of resident subscribers. It also notes that ‘Population now much reduced 2/3s of census of 1841’. The minutes of the first meeting, held on 6 January 1835 to form the Dispensary, includes a list of names of subscribers and of potential subscribers to be solicited. Minutes of the second meeting, held on 2 February 1835, incorporate the agreed rules and regulations of the Dispensary. Subsequent meeting notes revolve primarily around funding and accounts. The second part of the book commences upside down from the rear of the volume and comprises income and expenditure accounts, account summaries and lists of subscribers between 1835 and 1848. There are also pro forma notices and text to be used on receipts.
Bewertung, Vernichtung und Terminierung
Zuwächse
Ordnung und Klassifikation
Bedingungen des Zugriffs- und Benutzungsbereichs
Benutzungsbedingungen
Reproduktionsbedingungen
In der Verzeichnungseinheit enthaltene Sprache
Schrift in den Unterlagen
Anmerkungen zu Sprache und Schrift
Physische Beschaffenheit und technische Anforderungen
Findmittel
Bereich Sachverwandte Unterlagen
Existenz und Aufbewahrungsort von Originalen
Existenz und Aufbewahrungsort von Kopien
Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.yknb-8e30.
The National Library of Ireland holds a copy of this item in location N.6361, P.7363. A record of the copy can be found at http://sources.nli.ie/Record/MS_UR_080721.